BTRVETC-L Digest Volume 98 : Issue 73
11 Nov 1998
Today's Topics:
Re: Sonny Griffith
Sickness>Deaths>Epidemics
Burnett books
Re: sickness and death
LOST ALL MY MAIL!
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Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 07:14:24 EST
From: WalkingEd@aol.com
To: BTRVETC-L@genealogy.org
Subject: Re: Sonny Griffith
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<< www.familytreemaker.com/users/g/r/i/Marvin-C-Griffith-jr. >>
Hi Sonny Griffith,
I couldn't access the above address.
Please contact me personally as we share several surnames.
Lisa
Walkinged@aol.com
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Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 08:05:29 EST
From: RAGLADY@aol.com
To: BTRVETC-L@genealogy.org
Subject: Sickness>Deaths>Epidemics
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An earlier post about the above reminded me of an item I had in my files. I
had saved because like many, also wondered about the multiple losses within
families in a short period of time. The following may help explain.
Gloria
Sept-Oct, 1997, Newsletter - Genealogical Society of Santa Cruz County
"Source: Ancestors West, SSBCGS, Vol 20, No l, Fall 1993, South Bend (IN) Area
Genealogical Society
"In case you ever wondered why a large number of your ancestors disappeared
during a certain period in history, this might help.
Epidemics have always had a great influence on people - and thus influencing,
as well, the genealogists trying to trace them. Many cases of people
disappearing from records can be traced to dying during an epidemic or moving
away from the affected area. Some of the major epidemics in the United States
are listed below:
^’1657 - Boston -- Measles ^’1687 - Boston -- Measles ^’1690 - New York --Yellow
Fever ^’1713 - Boston -- Measles ^’1729 - Boston -- Measles ^’1732-3 - Worldwide
-- Influenza ^’1738 - South Carolina -- Smallpox ^’1739-40 - Boston -- Measles
^’1747 - CT,NY,PA,SC -- Measles ^’1759 - North America [areas inhabited by white
people] -- Measles ^’1761 - North America and West Indies -- Influenza ^’1772 -
North America -- Measles ^’1775 - North America [especially hard in Northeast]
epidemic -- Unknown ^’1775-6 - Worldwide [one of the worst epidemics] --
Influenza ^’1783 - Dover, DE ["extremely fatal"] -- Bilious Disorder ^’1788 -
Philadelphia and New York -- Measles ^’1793 - Vermont [a "putrid" fever] and --
Influenza ^’1793 - Virginia [killed 500 in 5 counties in 4 weeks] -- Influenza
^’1793 - Philadelphia [one of the worst epidemics] -- Yellow Fever ^’1793 -
Harrisburg, PA [many unexplained deaths] -- Unknown ^’1793 - Middletown, PA
[many mysterious deaths] -- Unknown ^’1794 - Philadelphia, PA -- Yellow Fever
^’1796-7 - Philadelphia, PA -- Yellow Fever ^’1798 - Philadelphia, PA [one of
the worst] -- Yellow Fever ^’1803 - New York -- Yellow Fever ^’1820-3 -
Nationwide [starts-Schuylkill River and spreads] -- "Fever" ^’1831-2 -
Nationwide [brought by English emigrants] -- Asiatic Cholera ^’1832 - New York
City and other major cities -- Cholera ^’1837 - Philadelphia -- Typhus ^’1841 -
Nationwide [especially severe in the south] -- Yellow Fever ^’1847 - New
Orleans -- Yellow Fever ^’1847-8 - Worldwide -- Influenza ^’1848-9 - North
America -- Cholera ^’1850 - Nationwide -- Yellow Fever ^’1850-1 - North America
-- Influenza ^’1852 - Nationwide [New Orleans-8,000 die in summer] -- Yellow
Fever ^’1855 - Nationwide [many parts] -- Yellow Fever ^’1857-9 - Worldwide [one
of the greated epidemics] -- Influenza ^’1860-1 - Pennsylvania -- Smallpox
^’1865-73 - Philadelphia, New York, Boston, New Orleans -- Smallpox ^’1865-73 -
Baltimore, Memphis, Washington DC -- Cholera
^’[A series of recurring epidemics of: Typhus, Typhoid, Scarlet Fever, Yellow
Fever]
^’1873-5 - North America and Europe -- Influenza ^’1878 - New Orleans [last
great epidemic] -- Yellow Fever ^’1885 - Plymouth, PA -- Typhoid ^’1886 -
Jacksonville, FL -- Yellow Fever ^’1918 - Worldwide [high point year] --
Influenza
^’More people were hospitalized in WWI from this epidemic than wounds. US Army
training camps became death camps, with 80% death rate in some camps
Finally, these specific instances of Cholera were mentioned:
^’1833 Columbus, OH ^’1834 New York City ^’1849 New York ^’1851 Coles Co.,
Illinois, The Great Plains, and Missouri
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Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1998 05:45:01 -0800
From: jbbork@ix.netcom.com
To: "BTRVETC-L@genealogy.org"
Subject: Burnett books
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For those of you who wish to order one of the BURNETTS AND THEIR
CONNECTIONS books, please let me know by email and I will have the book
printed and will mail it out the day your check arrives. Thanks, June
http://www.junebaldwinbork.com
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Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 20:40:04 -0500 (EST)
From: ncgen@mindspring.com (Elizabeth Harris)
To: BTRVETC-L
Subject: Re: sickness and death
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> These are all the deaths by fever in the upper end of Hawkins
>County, since about the first of July, in about 20 miles on Holston
>river, from Ross's bridge to four or five miles below Surgoinsville. The
>sickness has been confined to about a mile on each side of the river.
>There have been probably 400 people sick in this bounds. A great number
>are still sick but generally their cases have become fever and ague. The
>sick have been very subject to relapses, and there are few who have been
>sick that are perfectly recovered. There have been but six new cases
>since the late rain, and perhaps none within the last five or six days.
>More than two thirds of those who have died were old people, or at least
>past the prime of life. -- The fever is a bilious remittent and
>intermittent, and in soe cases, early in the season, highly malignant.
>Laterly there have been a great many cases of fever and ague. The people
>have suffered much for want of Doctors and medicine.
Very interesting - the relapsing nature, and the summer season, suggests
malaria. Have there been any modern investigations to determine if this
was the case?
Elizabeth Harris
ncgen@mindspring.com
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Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 10:07:47 -0500
From: "Waddie B. Salmon"
To: BTRVETC-L@genealogy.org
Subject: LOST ALL MY MAIL!
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Hi Cuzins,
If you have written me and I have not replied would you please resend
your message. I lost all my mail and my addresses on my server and what I
was holding in my computer.
Take care,
Cuzin Waddie
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